This workshop for directors, actors and writers is designed to put the emerging actor, writer, and director back in touch with their most creative instincts. Preceded by Filmmakers Alliance prospective member meeting and followed by FA membership meeting (open to all) and reception.
As an actor, this workshop will help the actor to develop the techniques and tools of being a professional actor. Special emphasis will be placed on training the actor to respond quickly and fully to all stimuli in an effort to assist the actor to make winning choices, acting fearlessly and ultimately, helping the actor cultivate a process that is uniquely their own. As a director, you learn the language and tools to work with actors and, as a writer, you learn the behavior of human beings and are inspired to write wonderful and unique stories.
Included in this interactive workshop:
• The journey of the “ah-haâ€
• Learn to mine the unexpected
• Understanding of and focus on the creative process, increasing your capacity to surprise yourself
• Learn to trust and to collaborate with the actors, writers, and crew
• Helping actors to make each time the first time, physically expressive and free so nobody perceives any acting going on.
• How to encourage creativity in an actor, trigger your own imagination and insight, and become a superior storyteller.
• How to be more specific and effective with your direction
• How to make winning choices. To help the actor make fearless and risky choices that allow the actor to break the rules and make new rules, inspiring exceptional work and characters.
• Character Development
• How to create human behavior, so real that it produces the grittiness and rawness of really living the role
• How to work with Objectives and Obstacles
• What you can do to make “chemistry†happen
• Script Breakdown
• The rehearsal process, keeping the door open for intuition and spontaneity as long as possible.
• Keeping the process in the present, responding to what you know and what is in front of you.
• Stanislavski, the “Method,†Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, The Chubbuck Technique